A Beautiful, Limited Edition Book
Oct 29, 2017<span class="plain" style>One of the fruits of this summer’s work is <i>Italian Panels</i>, a collaboration with my husband, poet Mike Dillon. The book features fourteen paintings and twenty-three prose “panels” as it explores vivid, memorable moments where past and present cross paths in that beautiful country.</span> <p class="plain"> </p> <p class="plain">The painted images exist outside my usual body of work and were inspired by the back and forth process between image and written word. We’d been exploring the possibilities of such a project for a long time and are very happy with the results.</p><p class="plain"><br></p><p class="plain"><img border="0" height="437" src="https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/139/dd3/FullSizeRender-66.jpg#RDAMDAID23588009" width="400"><br></p><p class="plain"><img border="0" height="304" src="https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/113/156/FullSizeRender-68.jpg#RDAMDAID23588011" width="400"><br></p><p class="plain">Below: "Breakfast Room, Ravenna" — 30" x 24" — acrylic on canvas</p><p class="plain"><img border="0" height="500" src="#RDAMDAID23588012" width="400"><br></p> <p class="plain"> </p> <p class="plain"><i>Italian Panels </i>was hand-bound at The Bremerton Letterpress Co. in a limited edition of 50 copies using letterpress printed covers on French Paper Company’s Kraft-Tone paper. Interior pages were printed offset on Mohawk Super Fine paper by Blue Sky Printing. </p> <p class="plain"> </p> <p class="plain">Typeface is Didot, from a group of typefaces produced by the Didot family of France in 1784.</p> <p class="plain"> </p> <p class="plain">Signed copies of <i>Italian Panels</i> will be available for sale in my studio during Art in the Woods, along with a few of the original paintings featured in the book.</p> <p class="plain"> </p>